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E. Y. Teas, Irvington, Ind., writes: “ My sales were better 
the past spring than for years. I think the prospect is better 
than in the past.” 
Peach trees by the 1,000 or carload and a heavy stock of 
root cuttings of blackberry plants is held for fall sale by D. 
Baird & Son, Baird, N. J. 
Meehan's Monthly and the Rural Neiv Yorker record the 
fact that the Logan raspberry-blackberry vines need covering 
to protect them in winter. 
Tree roses, hydrangea, rhododendron, azalea and other or¬ 
namental stock is offered for early fall delivery by L. C. 
Bobbink, Rutherford, N. J. 
The assignee’s schedule shows that the assets of Frederick 
E. Young, Rochester, N. Y., are nominally $6,983.87, actually 
$3)173-77 1 liabilities $6,100.88. 
The Dayton Fruit Tree Label Co., Dayton, O., is creating 
quite a demand for its labels. Its display at the St. Louis 
convention was very attractive. 
S. D. Willard says the indications are that the apple crop in 
Western New York will be light. Similar reports are made 
from other parts of the Empire State. 
The Manitoba Horticultural Society has been organized in 
the interest of horticulture, especially in the region between 
Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountains. 
Charles T. Smith of Smith Brothers, proprietors of the Con¬ 
cord Nurseries, Concord, Ga., is editor of the Concord Enter¬ 
prise, a weekly paper just established there. 
Ethan Chase, Riverside, Cal., was in Rochester on July 15. 
After a brief visit at his old home he started on an eastern 
trip. He will return to California in October. 
Ex-President Silas Wilson is a member of the committee on 
legislation of the American Association of Nurserymen, in 
place of Irving Rouse, who asked to be relieved. 
A. T. Remer, Aulne, Kan., endorses the sentiments in the 
paper presented by C. L. Watrous at the St. Louis convention 
on the subject of sending wholesale lists to planters. 
C. F. McNair has returned from Moorestown, N. J., to Dans- 
ville, N. Y. He has been manager for the Rogers Nursery 
Company at Moorestown, N. J., which has gone out of business. 
Samuel Henshaw, the well-known landscape gardener, of 
West New Brighton, S. I., N. Y., has been appointed head 
gardener in the new botanic garden at Bronx Park, New York. 
John M. Samuels, Clinton, Ky., is reported to have pur¬ 
chased the Mississippi Valley Nurseries, at Chilton, which his 
father, the late W, M. Samuels, established many years ago, 
for $25,000. 
Special quotations on fruit seedlings, ornamentals, roses, 
etc., will be given by Andre L. Causse, New York City, agent 
for Brault & Son, directors of the Andre Leroy Nurseries, 
Angers, France. 
During the past few years manuals on fruit farming have 
been written by the following nurserymen of England: G. 
Bunyard, Maidstone ; J. Cheal, Lawfield, Crawley ; and Mr. 
Cranston, Hereford. 
Choice specialties have long been a feature of the large 
trade of Jackson & Perkins, Newark, N. Y. Yellow Rambler 
roses. Lord Penzance’s Hybrid Sweet Briars and the Cumber¬ 
land raspberry are among them. 
On another page J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., in 
connection with an attractive statement as to their extensive 
stock, suggest that nurserymen visit their grounds on the way 
to Ocean City, on the seashore, which is only seven miles 
away. 
The Sparta greenhouses, owned by N. Grievelding, have 
been purchased by Z. K. Jewett, Sparta, Wis., and they will in 
future be operated by Miriam Jewett. The place now con¬ 
tains 3,500 feet of glass and at least one new house will be 
added as soon as possible. 
The European fruit crop is summarized as follows : Apples 
—England, fourth crop, will require large importations; France, 
light crop in the south, fair crop in the north, can export some; 
Belgium, third crop; Holland, fair crop; Germany, fair; Italy, 
good. Pears—England, worse crop for many years; France, 
good crop of late kinds; Germany, good crop of ordinary fruit. 
The St. Louis Republic szys: “The fruit crop of Missouri 
this year is roughly estimated to be worth $20,000,000 and 
many who ought to know say that the figures are too low. The 
importance of the crop may be understood when it is stated 
that it is worth more than the wheat crops of Illinois and Mis¬ 
souri combined, with the cotton crop of Missouri thrown in 
for good measure.’’ 
A writer in Meehan s Monthly, referring to the Gravenstein 
apple, says: “In my father’s fine orchard, in Western New 
York, no apple stood higher in our estimation than this. It 
was not only a beautiful apple, but a first-class apple in every 
way, always keeping well, sound, brittle and aromatic to the 
last. But not until I removed to Nebraska did I know of its 
rare virtue as a canning apple.” 
Nelson Bogue, Batavia, N. Y,, has donated to the state of 
New York one specimen of every desirable variety of orna¬ 
mental trees and shrubs grown in his nursery on condition 
that the board of trustees of the State School for the Blind 
furnish competent help to plant and care for after planting and 
also provide each tree and shrub with a proper label that shall 
give both the botanical and popular names. 
Jacob Moore, Vine Valley, N. Y., urges the importance of 
protecting the introducer of a new fruit. He refers to the 
contract made at Portland, N. Y. June 28, 1880, between Lin¬ 
coln Fay and George S. Josselyn, by which the former was 
protected for ten years in the introduction by Mr. Josselyn of 
Fay’s Prolific currant. Mr. Moore urges that a new variety 
should not be the common property of the trade, as is now 
the case. 
H. S. Anderson of Elizabeth, N. J., until lately of Union 
Springs, N. Y., is representing Hiram T. Jones (formerly of 
Jones & Rouse of Rochester), proprietor of the Union County 
Nurseries, Elizabeth, N. J. Mr. Jones is favorably known as 
importer of French grown seedlings of high standard of grad¬ 
ing, and has extended his line by accepting the position of sole 
American representative for Messrs. J. B. Tanner & Co., Bos- 
koop, Holland, and the Yokohama Nursery Co., Yokohama, 
Japan, for which lines Mr. Anderson is soliciting orders. Mr. 
Jones visits Europe annually to give the necessary personal 
attention to his orders that will guarantee to his customers the 
careful grading they have always received in orders entrusted 
to his care ; as an experience covering many years proves that 
this is the only method that .enables him to guarantee satisfac¬ 
tion to his customers. 
